I agree with the comments about the Glasgow volume, it's one of my favourites. I haven't been on UA-cam for very long (although I've been a photographer since 1972) and I find this channel a great inspiration for my own stumbling efforts. Jeff, I'm encouraged by the easy way you have with the audience, and hoping that comes with practice! Thanks also to both of you for answering my offline questions, you are total 'dudes'.
I know Martin Parr can be divisive but for me, ‘The Last Resort’, is an iconic British photography book. I would also include Saul Leiter’s books, particularly his recent monograph simply called, ‘Saul Leiter’ a wonderful telling of a photographer’s journey through different genres.
“The Last Resort” is the only Parr book we own. Funnily enough we’ve been to at least four exhibitions of his but without buying the books. Saul Leiter, we have “Early Color” and “Early Black & White”. Amazing photographer.
Yes it’s a great book. I nearly bought it for Sarah but we already have five of his books here (Sarah is a big fan) so a lot of the images we already have. I first saw his work in 1988. Great photographer.
I like DM’s work and ethos but I wouldn’t say I was a big Moriyama fan when it comes to his books. They are a little too haphazard for my eye. I have four of his books though and his retrospective book was ok. I haven’t seen the two Record books but thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check them out.
Excellent recommendations! I always feel that "Glasgow" is overlooked so thanks for the mention here. I would also add Saul Leiter's "The Centennial Retrospective" and Fred Herzog's "Modern Color" which highlight the stunning work of two of the early masters of color.
I have the Herzog book and honestly, I think they could have halved the number of images in there. Some fabulous pictures simply drowned out by too many not so good images. And they also included b/w photos which doesn’t make sense given the book title. He has a b/w book out at the moment but I haven’t seen it yet. I have Leiter’s Early Color and Early Black and White. Both are great but hard to find at a reasonable price now, so your recommendation is welcome. Thank you.
@@simonbnyc yes, my home town… another book I would love to get is London 1959. While I don’t like London, the images within are really interesting. Sadly, it’s out of print at this time. 🏴
Yes. I have both of those. I actually have two copies of “Migrations” as one is a first edition and is signed and I don’t want trash it 😂 I thought about including Salgado in this list but generally, his books are at the higher end of the price scale.
Great selections! I have almost all of these myself. If I might make a suggestion, Matt Stuart has reissued his work “All That Life Can Afford” this year in response to the previous editions selling for what he feels are way to much money. I don’t know how many copies are remaining but if I remember correctly I picked mine up for around $60 USD.
Also, Alex is too humble to say so, but “The Suffering of Light” is probably one of the best photo books ever published. If someone is looking to get into street/documentary photography, this is the first book I would recommend, hands down❤
Agreed. I have most of his books. “Istanbul” is ok too. But Suffering is a masterpiece. I think the problem is that it’s very hard to follow a book as good as that. “Dislocations” I was disappointed with.
Totally with you on Don McCullin, the man who made want to take photographs. I wonder how Depardon would photograph Glasgow today, but yes I love that book. I have one of the Gruyeart books. Anything by Brassai is good, New York 1952 to 1962 by Ernst Haas but anything by Haas is a winner for me. Cheers , I hope that Pup is behaving.
I have both Don McCullin's and Alex Webb's books, and they are awesome! Bought the McCullin's book many years ago, and I still take it out to flip through the photos to remind myself how the greats see the images, although a word of warning; it is very gritty and dark and some photographers may not like the way he shoots and prints his images.
Excellent selection! I applaud to every single one of them. Let me just add: In many countries we find photographer who have produced stunning bodies of work which are in no way "minor". For very contingent reasons they just haven't made it to the international canon. I am thinking of the likes of Ara Güler in Turkey, Miguel Rio Branco in Brazil, Barbara Klemm in Germany ... They have all contributed in distinctive ways to the full potential of the medium.
Agreed. Guler is a terrific photographer but it’s very difficult to find his books here. The other photographers I am not so familiar with. I will go and check them out. Thanks for the recommendations.
Superb. Thanks for all recommendation. "Glasgow" was on my radar for sometime, you just did convinced me and it's in my basket! I have to second also Sir Don McCullin. Two years ago I went to charity shop in Bristol I think it was Oxfam and as usual I started looking for some photography books and here it was " Sleeping with the Ghosts" by Don McCullin on a bottom shelf for a price of £8, what a treasure. It is not easy book to go through but it shows incredible resilience of human soul and same time beauty and ugliness of this mad world we living.
🙏🙏 Sleeping With Ghosts is a really good entry into McCullin’s photography. I think I found my copy online at a charity website. We’ve found loads of books in charity shops. TK Maxx is also worth checking out. I picked up Salagado’s Africa for £15 and my daughter picked up Peter Lindbergh’s Untold Stories for £12.
Thank you Jeff, great choices. I'd like to recommend Photofile (published by Thames and Hudson) they've put out a 3-book series on women photographers called Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Contemporaries, it's a good introduction to photographers working in the field.
Yes I have that book. I picked it up in Pezenas, France in 2018 along with a Willy Ronis book. Bit of a bargain. Paid next to nothing for both of them.
Charleroi and Belgium from Stephan Vanfleteren. He was a newspaper photographer for one of the biggest newspapers of Belgium, De Morgen. This books show his b&w reporter style perfect. Love both. But Glascow is epic too🙌
I’ll be honest, I’m not a fan of wildlife photography. I don’t mind Nick Brandt’s work as it’s more conceptual, but it’s not a genre I ever look at. Yarrow’s work is good.
I wanted add something" Conscience with a Camera" interview from 5 months ago with Sir Don McCullin here on YT. It did hit me so hard. His honesty, how humble he is and his ability to stay sane after all those years of being witness to terrors and tragedy of the war. This man is treasure and his photography can't be seen without inner thoughts about human condition and state of past/ current world affairs. I didn't want this comment be so depressive so one can also look on his amazing photography of British landscapes.
Don’s conflict work is important, but that’s only part of his career. When I spent a week with him, he felt that the work he did for Southern Frontiers was the work he was most proud of.
Some excellent choices there and I own a few of them. One book I highly recommend is by Greg Williams - “Photo Breakdowns” and it’s also less than £40. Ignore the paper cover (I threw mine away) and just enjoy the big Matt black hardback cover underneath. It’s mainly celebrity portraits….again, don’t be put off by that, there are some outstanding images (mainly black and white) and he tells the story about every one of them, which makes it a fascinating watch and read - a great book for aspiring photographers to understand how outstanding images are produced.
The price of photobooks is a fascinating topic. There seems to be no rhyme or reason behind the used prices of out-of-print books except that sod's law dictates that the book you really want is probably £100 plus! One recommendation of mine - Eve Arnold's 'In Retrospect'. A lovely well-produced hardback that I bought used for £13 last month. Absolute bargain. I think the basic strategy should be that if you see a photobook you really want and it's a half-reasonable price, snap it up now before it doubles of trebles in price!
I have McCullin’s “Southern Frontiers”. Bought it for less than £40. My old dog destroyed the cover so we tried to get a replacement. £100. So we bought it. They are going upwards of £600 now. I’ve even seen them listed upwards of £1k. Bonkers. I think my most expensive book I own (in terms of actually buying it) is a first edition of Cartier-Bresson’s “The Face Of Asia” which is also signed. It was a gift from Sarah so no idea how much but it was expensive.
@@WalkLikeAlice Ouch! Another McCullin photobook worth considering is Donald McCullin (The Great photographers) 1983 by Mark Haworth-Booth. Only 61 pages but a great intro to his work. And it's available for less than £4 on Amazon. Can't beat that.
Not a book in the same sense as these, but I'm really enjoying the publications by Cafe Royal Books at the moment. Probably more accurately described as Zines I guess, they're only a few quid each, and mostly B&W, and of scenes of post war UK to late 80's/early 90s. The Blackpool 78-82 book has pictures that really don't look all that different (from a scene, and how little Blackpool has changed perspective) from the stuff you and Sarah publish.
Glasgow - had it for a while, not least as I know the locations. Some are still recognisable as they were in the 70’s. My copy’s print quality is not the best but it was not an expensive book.
The Americans by Robert Frank, Manhattan Out by Depardon and more expensive Raised by Wolves from Jim Goldberg (and dont forget libraries have a ton of awesome books for free)
Americans is a classic but not a favourite of mine. I have that and also Manhattan Out. MO didn’t make the list because it’s hard to get now and relatively expensive.
I have over the years managed a nice collection. Sadly publishers and photographers are printing Gutenberg bibles! Hard to pick up, hard to read, images are way too large! My 1st book was Aperture's HCB. I would add Costas Manos Greek portfolio. Great choice!
I got Costa’s “Greek Portfolio” last year. Now there is a book. Great recommendation. I think some publishers get confused over coffee table books. They think they should be the same size as a coffee table!!
Just my opinion; I have requested for Xmas DM's Open Skies. It's shots of an area of England closer to the current era, I find this more relatable & helpful, we are long gone the world war years & England's not very sunny.
Yes. I have Open Skies. I would go for his book ‘The Landscape’ unless you specifically want OS. It’s a much bigger book with superior print quality. OS is very small and a lot of the images are still life photos.
Brilliant book. I bought it for about £10 last year (including P&P) and it now seems to have doubled or trebled in price. I thought it was undervalued at the time but it's pretty infuriating how often these books just seem to rocket in price for no real reason.
You mean “Under A Grudging Sun”? I have that. I don’t think It is as good as “Istanbul” as a group of photos, even though there is an argument that some of the images are more striking. Neither have the depth of TSOL, but that’s to be expected given that one is a retrospective.
@ Yes, “under a grudging sun” 1989, almost 2 decades before “Istambul” 2007, both amazing books as others too. But I remember the ’89 book and the great impact it had with subject, color, dark shadows and framing…mind blowing!
I agree with the comments about the Glasgow volume, it's one of my favourites. I haven't been on UA-cam for very long (although I've been a photographer since 1972) and I find this channel a great inspiration for my own stumbling efforts. Jeff, I'm encouraged by the easy way you have with the audience, and hoping that comes with practice! Thanks also to both of you for answering my offline questions, you are total 'dudes'.
I’m not sure about “dudes” 😂 but thank you for your kind comments.
I already had a couple, but stuck the others straight in my amazon shopping basket. Thank you!
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I know Martin Parr can be divisive but for me, ‘The Last Resort’, is an iconic British photography book. I would also include Saul Leiter’s books, particularly his recent monograph simply called, ‘Saul Leiter’ a wonderful telling of a photographer’s journey through different genres.
“The Last Resort” is the only Parr book we own. Funnily enough we’ve been to at least four exhibitions of his but without buying the books. Saul Leiter, we have “Early Color” and “Early Black & White”. Amazing photographer.
Great video. Have just ordered three of them. Discovered Chris Killips 1946-2020 book recently which was fantastic.
Yes it’s a great book. I nearly bought it for Sarah but we already have five of his books here (Sarah is a big fan) so a lot of the images we already have. I first saw his work in 1988. Great photographer.
Daido Moriyama has a new book out, Record 2, can be had for about £40.00, Also the little Thames and Hudson books can be had for £12.99
I like DM’s work and ethos but I wouldn’t say I was a big Moriyama fan when it comes to his books. They are a little too haphazard for my eye. I have four of his books though and his retrospective book was ok. I haven’t seen the two Record books but thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check them out.
Excellent recommendations! I always feel that "Glasgow" is overlooked so thanks for the mention here. I would also add Saul Leiter's "The Centennial Retrospective" and Fred Herzog's "Modern Color" which highlight the stunning work of two of the early masters of color.
I have the Herzog book and honestly, I think they could have halved the number of images in there. Some fabulous pictures simply drowned out by too many not so good images. And they also included b/w photos which doesn’t make sense given the book title. He has a b/w book out at the moment but I haven’t seen it yet.
I have Leiter’s Early Color and Early Black and White. Both are great but hard to find at a reasonable price now, so your recommendation is welcome. Thank you.
@@simonbnyc yes, my home town… another book I would love to get is London 1959. While I don’t like London, the images within are really interesting. Sadly, it’s out of print at this time. 🏴
Great video. I would also include Salgado’s “Migrations” or “Workers”. Both iconic books !!
Yes. I have both of those. I actually have two copies of “Migrations” as one is a first edition and is signed and I don’t want trash it 😂 I thought about including Salgado in this list but generally, his books are at the higher end of the price scale.
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Great selections! I have almost all of these myself.
If I might make a suggestion, Matt Stuart has reissued his work “All That Life Can Afford” this year in response to the previous editions selling for what he feels are way to much money.
I don’t know how many copies are remaining but if I remember correctly I picked mine up for around $60 USD.
Also, Alex is too humble to say so, but “The Suffering of Light” is probably one of the best photo books ever published. If someone is looking to get into street/documentary photography, this is the first book I would recommend, hands down❤
Agreed. I have most of his books. “Istanbul” is ok too. But Suffering is a masterpiece. I think the problem is that it’s very hard to follow a book as good as that. “Dislocations” I was disappointed with.
Glad to see he’s reissued it. Books should be accessible to everyone.
Thanks for the “Decisive Moment” tip - just got myself a copy 😎
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Totally with you on Don McCullin, the man who made want to take photographs. I wonder how Depardon would photograph Glasgow today, but yes I love that book. I have one of the Gruyeart books. Anything by Brassai is good, New York 1952 to 1962 by Ernst Haas but anything by Haas is a winner for me. Cheers , I hope that Pup is behaving.
Haas. Of course. Great call. Pup is getting better. But he’s coming from a very low point 😂😂
@@WalkLikeAlice I am sure you'll get him there. Cheers.
one of the best backgrounds on whole youtube. maybe the best. real pictures instead some fake pictures, vox amp instead ikea plant. beautiful
Thank you. It’s just a wall in our second living room. It’s not staged as such. It’s how we like to live. 🙏
John Bulmer's 'The North' is worth considering on this list.
You know. I haven’t got that book. I have no idea why not. I’ll have to address that!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Exactly what I have been (unsuccessfully) searching charity shops for. I am ordering all five.
Glad you found it helpful!!
Love this pointer to some great photobooks.
Thank you.
I have both Don McCullin's and Alex Webb's books, and they are awesome! Bought the McCullin's book many years ago, and I still take it out to flip through the photos to remind myself how the greats see the images, although a word of warning; it is very gritty and dark and some photographers may not like the way he shoots and prints his images.
Don puts his soul into the printing. It’s very much part of who he is. In my opinion.
@@WalkLikeAlice I fully agree. His experience during the Biafra war probably impacted on him more than he admitted.
Excellent selection! I applaud to every single one of them. Let me just add: In many countries we find photographer who have produced stunning bodies of work which are in no way "minor". For very contingent reasons they just haven't made it to the international canon. I am thinking of the likes of Ara Güler in Turkey, Miguel Rio Branco in Brazil, Barbara Klemm in Germany ... They have all contributed in distinctive ways to the full potential of the medium.
Agreed. Guler is a terrific photographer but it’s very difficult to find his books here. The other photographers I am not so familiar with. I will go and check them out. Thanks for the recommendations.
Superb. Thanks for all recommendation. "Glasgow" was on my radar for sometime, you just did convinced me and it's in my basket! I have to second also Sir Don McCullin. Two years ago I went to charity shop in Bristol I think it was Oxfam and as usual I started looking for some photography books and here it was " Sleeping with the Ghosts" by Don McCullin on a bottom shelf for a price of £8, what a treasure. It is not easy book to go through but it shows incredible resilience of human soul and same time beauty and ugliness of this mad world we living.
🙏🙏 Sleeping With Ghosts is a really good entry into McCullin’s photography. I think I found my copy online at a charity website. We’ve found loads of books in charity shops. TK Maxx is also worth checking out. I picked up Salagado’s Africa for £15 and my daughter picked up Peter Lindbergh’s Untold Stories for £12.
Thanks for the list
Thanks for watching
@ I’m slowly growing my photo books
Thank you Jeff, great choices. I'd like to recommend Photofile (published by Thames and Hudson) they've put out a 3-book series on women photographers called Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Contemporaries, it's a good introduction to photographers working in the field.
That sounds interesting. I’ll take a look. Thank you.
Enjoyed this video immensely.
Greetings from Canada.
Thanks for watching 🙏
The books I wish they do reruns of, are the photography of Fan Ho. 🏴
Yes. I think they tried to release one a few years ago but it never got published.
@@WalkLikeAlice yes, I was very disappointed by that as I had been on a waiting list for it.
John Gill recently gave an excellent presentation to our camera club and I heartily recomend his latest book which has just been published - 'Retro'.
Thank you for the recommendation. I’ve not come across his work before.
Marc Riboud, 60 Years of Photography, is excellent.
A little pricey for this list but a great recommendation. 🙏
I bought the Glasgow book after a recommendation on rangefinderforum, and was really impressed with it.
I picked up a Raymond Depardon book a year or so ago. “Adieu Saigon” is one of my favorites.
Yes I have that book. I picked it up in Pezenas, France in 2018 along with a Willy Ronis book. Bit of a bargain. Paid next to nothing for both of them.
Charleroi and Belgium from Stephan Vanfleteren. He was a newspaper photographer for one of the biggest newspapers of Belgium, De Morgen. This books show his b&w reporter style perfect. Love both. But Glascow is epic too🙌
Thanks for the recommendation 🙏
@ You too! Thank anyway because your tube is a inspiration 🙏🏼🙌
David Yarrow, wild encounters an amazing book!
I’ll be honest, I’m not a fan of wildlife photography. I don’t mind Nick Brandt’s work as it’s more conceptual, but it’s not a genre I ever look at. Yarrow’s work is good.
I wanted add something" Conscience with a Camera" interview from 5 months ago with Sir Don McCullin here on YT. It did hit me so hard. His honesty, how humble he is and his ability to stay sane after all those years of being witness to terrors and tragedy of the war. This man is treasure and his photography can't be seen without inner thoughts about human condition and state of past/ current world affairs. I didn't want this comment be so depressive so one can also look on his amazing photography of British landscapes.
Don’s conflict work is important, but that’s only part of his career. When I spent a week with him, he felt that the work he did for Southern Frontiers was the work he was most proud of.
thank you!
Some excellent choices there and I own a few of them. One book I highly recommend is by Greg Williams - “Photo Breakdowns” and it’s also less than £40. Ignore the paper cover (I threw mine away) and just enjoy the big Matt black hardback cover underneath. It’s mainly celebrity portraits….again, don’t be put off by that, there are some outstanding images (mainly black and white) and he tells the story about every one of them, which makes it a fascinating watch and read - a great book for aspiring photographers to understand how outstanding images are produced.
Thanks for the recommendation 🙏
The price of photobooks is a fascinating topic. There seems to be no rhyme or reason behind the used prices of out-of-print books except that sod's law dictates that the book you really want is probably £100 plus! One recommendation of mine - Eve Arnold's 'In Retrospect'. A lovely well-produced hardback that I bought used for £13 last month. Absolute bargain. I think the basic strategy should be that if you see a photobook you really want and it's a half-reasonable price, snap it up now before it doubles of trebles in price!
I have McCullin’s “Southern Frontiers”. Bought it for less than £40. My old dog destroyed the cover so we tried to get a replacement. £100. So we bought it. They are going upwards of £600 now. I’ve even seen them listed upwards of £1k. Bonkers. I think my most expensive book I own (in terms of actually buying it) is a first edition of Cartier-Bresson’s “The Face Of Asia” which is also signed. It was a gift from Sarah so no idea how much but it was expensive.
@@WalkLikeAlice Ouch! Another McCullin photobook worth considering is Donald McCullin (The Great photographers) 1983 by Mark Haworth-Booth. Only 61 pages but a great intro to his work. And it's available for less than £4 on Amazon. Can't beat that.
Not a book in the same sense as these, but I'm really enjoying the publications by Cafe Royal Books at the moment.
Probably more accurately described as Zines I guess, they're only a few quid each, and mostly B&W, and of scenes of post war UK to late 80's/early 90s. The Blackpool 78-82 book has pictures that really don't look all that different (from a scene, and how little Blackpool has changed perspective) from the stuff you and Sarah publish.
Yes we have a couple of those by Homer Sykes. Great quality too. Thanks for the recommendation.
Glasgow - had it for a while, not least as I know the locations. Some are still recognisable as they were in the 70’s. My copy’s print quality is not the best but it was not an expensive book.
I heard the print quality varies a little bit. I don’t have an issue with my copy, but it’s a valid point and something to look out for.
The Americans by Robert Frank, Manhattan Out by Depardon and more expensive Raised by Wolves from Jim Goldberg (and dont forget libraries have a ton of awesome books for free)
Americans is a classic but not a favourite of mine. I have that and also Manhattan Out. MO didn’t make the list because it’s hard to get now and relatively expensive.
And I forgot New York 1954-1955 by William Klein, also a classic
My favourite book is "Extraordinary Women" by Tom Stoddart.
Dear Tom. Great man. Great photographer. He helped Sarah a lot when she was starting out. We have Tom's book 'iWitness' here.
I have over the years managed a nice collection. Sadly publishers and photographers are printing Gutenberg bibles! Hard to pick up, hard to read, images are way too large! My 1st book was Aperture's HCB. I would add Costas Manos Greek portfolio. Great choice!
I got Costa’s “Greek Portfolio” last year. Now there is a book. Great recommendation. I think some publishers get confused over coffee table books. They think they should be the same size as a coffee table!!
Just my opinion; I have requested for Xmas DM's Open Skies. It's shots of an area of England closer to the current era, I find this more relatable & helpful, we are long gone the world war years & England's not very sunny.
Yes. I have Open Skies. I would go for his book ‘The Landscape’ unless you specifically want OS. It’s a much bigger book with superior print quality. OS is very small and a lot of the images are still life photos.
Brilliant book. I bought it for about £10 last year (including P&P) and it now seems to have doubled or trebled in price. I thought it was undervalued at the time but it's pretty infuriating how often these books just seem to rocket in price for no real reason.
Alex Webb’s best book is Haiti
You mean “Under A Grudging Sun”? I have that. I don’t think It is as good as “Istanbul” as a group of photos, even though there is an argument that some of the images are more striking. Neither have the depth of TSOL, but that’s to be expected given that one is a retrospective.
@ Yes, “under a grudging sun” 1989, almost 2 decades before “Istambul” 2007, both amazing books as others too. But I remember the ’89 book and the great impact it had with subject, color, dark shadows and framing…mind blowing!
Wow, a Walmazon advert in the first 8 seconds.
Wow. An idiotic comment in the first 24 hours. 👏🏻👏🏻